Mid-South Memories: June 29

VP's wife helps with re-election
Marilyn Quayle, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, visits with Jerome Jackson Jr. at the Head Start center at 829 N. Decatur on June 29, 1992. Mrs. Quayle spent most of the day in Memphis on behalf of the Bush-Quayle re-election campaign.

June 29

25 years ago: 1987

A fire started by an electrical short ended an interclub golf match yesterday at Colonial Country Club, destroying 115 golf carts and sending the visiting team home early — minus its clubs. The fire started just before 6:30 a.m. in a storage building about 100 yards northeast of the clubhouse at 2736 Countrywood Parkway in northeast Shelby County. "Unfortunately they left our clubs on the carts and our clubs suffered the consequences," said Hap Hederman, one of 14 members of Annandale Country Club in Jackson, Miss. Jerry Hinton, head pro at Colonial, estimated the loss at more than $250,000.

50 years ago: 1962

A $3,356,250 transaction under which Belz Investment Company Inc. will lease 105 acres of Mallory Air Force Depot land from the city and county, and buy the buildings on it, was approved yesterday by the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission. The 25-year lease calls for payment to the city and county of $110,000 a year for the first 10 years and $123,750 annually for the next 15.

75 years ago: 1937

The need for "masses of war veterans" working together to prevent fighting overseas "for Wall Street debts" was stressed yesterday by Marine Gen. Smedley D. Butler at the formal opening of the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention at the Chisca.

100 years ago: 1912

The Political Equality League met this week with Mrs. M.M. Betts, on Vinton, to hear Mrs. Bowser discuss women and labor and the feasibility of the circle having a restroom at the Tri-State Fair.

125 years ago: 1887

Journeymen bakers here have persuaded the boss bakers to furnish the public with loaves of one and two pounds each, to be sold at five and 10 cents respectively, and grocers no more than 26 one-pound or 13 two-pound loaves for $1.